Four Reasons For Fatherhood. Muriel Jensen

his eyes at the same instant that lightning lit the room. He saw that complicated need in her worried gaze.

      And he realized he’d been wrong earlier when he’d thought that she needed him out of the way.

      It wasn’t that at all. It was that she’d wanted him out of the way for some reason he didn’t entirely understand, but she really needed him to stay. He felt it in the arms around his neck, in the trusting inclination of her body against his.

      Suddenly he had a clearer understanding of her. He seemed to be feeling the very same things, only in reverse.

      Whatever this was between them, he didn’t need it. But he realized now in the quiet darkness that he wanted it.

      He really wanted it.